At 6pm today (BST), no further comments will be taken on this site. At some point later in the evening, every post and comment put here between the 1st August and the closing of comments will be reproduced on the new site for our Blog – http://thelibertarianalliance.com. The only posts and comments not to be carried across will be these notices of the move. When this happens, the big switchover will be complete.

I am a little disappointed by the ease with which we have moved the Libertarian Alliance Blog. I thought it would take months of hard work on the new blog, and that it would take ages to carry our readers with us. I was also worried that our regulars would start moaning about the very different look of the new blog. In fact, it took a couple of hours to set up the new blog and to carry the material across. About half our readers have already moved across. Our regulars also seem to have appreciated the advantages of the new format – which shows equally well on most reading devices. We should probably have done this a few years ago.

Though it is now active, the new blog should be seen as a work in progress. We still have much to learn or relearn about CSS scripting. Colours and font sizes are liable to change back and forth without notice. There will be failed experiments. Above all, we are nerving ourselves for the epic job of amalgamating our blog and website into one place. This will certainly take months. But the first part of the job we have set ourselves will soon have been done.